One of the most common questions we get is how licensing for Admin Arsenal works.
AA is licensed per Administrator (or, more accurately, the person who will be running Admin Arsenal).
Once a user has a license for AA, they can install and run it on as many computers as they would like, clients, servers, laptops, etc. As long as each person who uses the console has a license, then the requirements have been met.
There is no per computer charge, either for the console itself or for any of the computers it will manage.
We believe that this scheme is simplest, and most cost effective, for the small business and departmental administrator. No need to worry about how many computers are being managed or their locations.
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Licensing Explained
Adam Ruth
asked this on November 13, 2009 11:58
One of the most common questions we get is how licensing for Admin Arsenal works.
AA is licensed per Administrator (or, more accurately, the person who will be running Admin Arsenal).
Once a user has a license for AA, they can install and run it on as many computers as they would like, clients, servers, laptops, etc. As long as each person who uses the console has a license, then the requirements have been met.
There is no per computer charge, either for the console itself or for any of the computers it will manage.
We believe that this scheme is simplest, and most cost effective, for the small business and departmental administrator. No need to worry about how many computers are being managed or their locations.
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1: According to the license you are not allowed to run BS on more than one PC at the same time. So if you want to host a dedicated server and connect from your home PC, you would need two licenses.
Thank you for pointing that out, at some point our old licence file (the one we used before we changed to per administrator licensing) got put back into the build process. We'll get that fixed ASAP.
Does this licesing apply to pdq deploy? I love that you don't require a license for each client that will be managed. I'm not too thrill about the per admin license. I have the free version right now. It's installed in only 1 server, which will be the only home for it. Can you have an option for per installation? I think most people will just install it on 1 server unless they are spread out in differen locations & want to lighten the bandwidth load. Then they would install it in several servers.
I'm the only one who uses the product out of 3 people in IT. However, there is a rare chance that the other 2 may use it on some rare occassion. I don't really want to pay for 2 extra licenses for rare, occassional use.
Your thoughts?
Jonathan, the per admin pricing is only for admins who use the product. If you have three admins but only you use our products then you would only need 1 license for your entire organization.
If however there are times that the other admins use it (to run reports, deployments, etc.) then they would need a license as well.
Our goal is to make licensing as easy to understand and implement as possible, while still ensuring that we get a good value for the use of our products. Licensing is always a balancing act. :)
How about service providers? Is a license for each of their clients needed or "per Administrator" licensing model applies here as well?
Ivan,
Licenses are only needed by the administrators that use the software, so one person that uses it with different clients would still only need the one license. If the client wanted to use it as well, they would need their own license.
Adam, thank you for your quick response.